Current status and future prospects of copper oxide heterojunction solar cells

Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Wong, Terence K S ^a   Zhuk, Siarhei ^a,b   Masudy Panah, Saeid ^b   Dalapati, Goutam K ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cupric oxide; Cuprous oxide; Heterojunction; Magnetron sputtering; Oxidation; Pulsed laser deposition; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

COPPER; COPPER OXIDES; DEPOSITION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODEPOSITION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OXIDATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PULSED LASERS; REDUCTION; SAPPHIRE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SPUTTERING; SURFACE DEFECTS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

CUPRIC OXIDE; CUPROUS OXIDE; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION; ELECTROCHEMICAL DOPING; HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84965000307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma9040271     Document Type: Review

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